Binder.



C. HAYDOCK.

BINDER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. I3. 1915.

Patented Mar, 28, 1916.

Z SHEETSSHEET l.

0Q HAYDOCK.

BINDER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 13, 1915.

1,177,41 1. Patented Mar. 28, 1916.

2 SHEETSSHEEI 2.

CLARENCE HAYDOCK, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALTFOBNIA.

BINDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 28, 1916.

Application filed February 13, 1915. Serial No. 8,041.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE Har oon, citizen of the United States, resldmg at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Binders, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention pertains to temporary binders, and consists 1n the s1mple, inexpensive, easily manipulated and highly eflicient binder for holding punched and unpunched leaves, pamphlets, rallroad tariffs, directories and other books, as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings which are hereby made a part hereof Figure 1 comprises disconnected perspectives of parts of one binder constructed in accordance with my invention, the covers being partly broken away. Fig. 2 is a section taken through the covers and in front of the back. Fig. 3 shows a portion of a punched leaf des1gned to be held in my binder. Flg. is an enlarged transverse section. of the binder. Fig. 5 is a front elevation, partly 1n section? and partly broken away, of a modification. Flg. 6 is a plan of the back thereof. F g. 7 s a section on line 7-7 of Fig. 5. Flg. 81s a detail plan of the retaining member. Fig. 9 is a section on line 9-9 of Fig. 5, showing in use the device for attaching to the binder unpunched leaves, pamphlets and the llke. Fig. 10 is a transverse section of the punching device (Fig. 12). Fig. 11 1s a detail plan of the said attaching device Fig. 12 is a detail view showing a punchlng device on one of the walls ofthe binder back.

Referring by numeral to the said drawings, and particularly to Figs. to 4 thereof: 1 is the back of my novel binder, whlch may be made of sheet metal or any other material compatible with its purpose. The said back comprises a back wall, upper and lower walls or side walls, and end walls, as clearly appears in Fig. 1. Hinged to one side wall of the back is a cover 2, and Henbly connected with the back through a longitudinally-disposed link 3, Flgs. l and 4, is the opposite cover 4. The bar of the link 3 opposite to that in the barrel or barrels 5 of the cover 4: and the barrel or barrels 6 on the lower side wall of the back 1 is arranged in the bight of a sheet-metal strip, as indicated by 7 in Fig. 4. The said sheetmetal strip is numbered 8, and by reason of the construction described is strongly held in position on the lower side wall of the back 1. In the upper Wall of the bent strip 8 socket apertures 9 are provided for a purpose hereinafter set forth, and fixed to and extending upwardly from the said strip 8 are pins 10, best shown in Fig. 1. Fixed at the underside of the upper side wall of the back 1 is a strip 11 having a lip 12 at its forward edge, and designed to be removably-rctained in position by the said lip 12 is a retaining device 13. his device 13 is preferably formed of sheet-metal, bent upon itself, and is provided in its lower wall with socket apertures 14 to receive the pins 10, and is also provided with pins 15, designed to be Seated in the socket apertures 9 of the stri Iii the practical use of the embodiment just described, leaves, such as shown in Fig; 3, are impaled on the pins 10, after which the pins 15 are passed through the inner apertures of the leaves, and the retaining device 13 is sprung behind the lip 12 and thereby confined in the position shown in Fig. 4. Incidental to the described placing of the retaining device 13, the upper side wall of the back 1 is sprung outwardly by the operator drawing on the cover 2 that is connected to said side wall, and this is also done when it is desired to remove the retaining device 13 from its position behind the lip 12. It will also be noticed in this connection that incidental to the impalement of the leaves on the pins 10, the strip 8 can be swung forwardly so as to facilitate the impalement of the leaves on the pins 10, as well as the placing of the pins 15 in the apertures of the leaves and the socket apertures 9 of the strip 8, and the placing of the strip 13 in engagement with the pins 10. The said positioning of the strip 8 and the pins 10, is clearly shown in Fig. 1 and it will be manifest that after the leaves and the retaining device 13 are properly placed relative to the strip 8 and the pins 10, the connected strips 8 and 13 can be swung back into the back 1, and the strip or retaining device 13 confined behind the lip 12, as before described.

It will be gathered from the foregoing that the construction described is easy to manipulate and yet is calculated to effectually prevent the casual disconnection of any leaf that is properly engaged with the pins 10 and 15. At this point I would have it understood that when desired the apertured holder having a tion 0 provided with inwardly reaching designed to be placed in the bight of a fold-i 21 I 16 shown in Figs. 5, 7, 9 and 11 of the drawings may .be employed in combination with the embodiment shown in Figs. 1, 2and ,4. The said holder 16 may be made sheet-metal or other suitable material and'is arms 17 ed pamphlet vor leaves, after the manner shown in Figs." 7 and 9. Manifestly, the holder engaged with pamphlet or leaves in the manner described is adapted to beim paled on the pins 10and to receive the pins 15 of the retaining device 13 comprised in the binder shown'inFigs. 1, 2 and 4.

The modified construction shown in Figs.

5 to 9 is similar inprinciple to the embodiment shown in Figs. 1, 2, and-i and differs from the latter onlyin details of construction as will 'now appear. The back 1 of the modification is provided on its upper sidewall withlips 12", and the upper cover 1 2 of the modification is connected to the forward edge of the side wall in any approved.

manner. The opposite coveri is connected to the lower side wall of the back in any approved hinged manner. The lower side wall of the back 1 is provided with 18, and in the said bearings are journaled truns nions 19 at the opposite ends of a channeled strip 20to whichpins21 are fixed. Byvir-' tue of this construction the strip 20 and the pins 21 are adapted to beiswung. forwardly, relative to the back, so that either leaves or the holder 16 can be expeditiously and easily impaled on=the pins. The retaining device 13, for uselin combination with the back 1 and the ertures 23- to receive the pins 21 and also aving upwardly extending guidepins-24, an u per bar -25 having apertures 26 to receive t e pins 24, and abowed SPI'lIlg between the bars 22 and 25 27 interposed and hel by certain of the guideins. It 1 will also be noticed that the lower ar 22 of? the retaining device is provided :with de .pendi adap 20, as clearly appear-sin Fig. 9. I

The general operation of the modificapins 28, the lower ends of which are to be seated .in the channeled strip tion is. similar .to that :of the embodiment shown inFigs. 1, 2 and4, with the'exception that the modified retaining: device 13" is ada ted to be compressed against the aci the bowed said retaining devlce bem moved past the lips 12', when the pins an retaining device are swung into the back. Obviously this does away with the necessity of springing the side wall of the back outwardly as described with reference to' the embodiment in Figs. 1, 2 and 4.- I f As clearlyappears in Figs-5, 7 and .9, the holder 'lfi -heminafter described, is designed to be used to advantage in combina-' tion with the modifiedrconstruction, but it of lightvv pins 21, comprises jailower bar 22.

sprmg,so as to permit of Jamar l to beunderstood that the modified mnholding 7 punched, leaves. When desired the upper. cover 2 of theimodification can be equipped with a 1 leaf punching device, shown inFigs. 10 and 12. The said device struction is equallycapable of engaging and comprises an upper bar 25 hinged to said% cover 2 and having apertures 26 near its a free punching pins 24* onaa lower bar 22 Fig. 10, and also having smaller edge to receive apertures 26* said lower bar,and a spring 27 interposed.

between andconnecting the bars 25"; and; i

22 1 and serving to yieldingly' hold said bars in spaced IBlfltlOIllflS illustrated in Fig.10.'

When it is desired to punch holes. in; leaves, pamphlets, etc., to adapt the same 175 to receive guide pins 2490n.

forelmpalement onsthe pins21 andz28, it is a simply necessary' to interpose the leaves. or 7 pamphlets between) the pins 24 and 5 the downwardly. It will be noted further that the construction shown in'Figs. 10 and .12'is further advantageousinasmuch as it is car-. ried by the cover- 2 and forms a permanent 1 part of the binder, and is .therefore always:

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and also havinga socket ialibrture, a longitudinally-disposed link havmg a bar connected to the otherside wall and the cover and also having a bar 50011- nected to the said strip, a strip constructed to 1 be yiel movably held behind ithe lip of'theback and having. socket aperture and also hav 7 ing; a pin arranged toienter ture of the .swmgmg strip.

2. The combinatlonzm desiredto put it into use;

of the back? and 'a %retaining; dlngly and re the socket apera binder, of a back upper bar 25". 'andfo'rce said upper bar may be hinged idirectlyto to secureby Letters,

in abinder, of 1a lbackand side i and end a lip on one of its havingz a pinr a cover,:

having a back? wall? and side and: end walls' swinging strip=hinged to the'other'side' wall and also havinga lip on one of its side walls, a 12 of the backand movable into and out of the same and 'havingqan: also havin a socket; an a retaining strip constru'cte to be yieldingl and removably held behind the lip ofthe b of the swin 7 g; strip; 3. A"bi ni' ;comprising a back, a :cover 1 thereon, lmpalement' pins carried bylthe racket and havmg a socket aperture and also having; an; impalement pin arranged to enter the socket 1m alement pin and uhingedi i thinmetal" back, and a punching device made up of two bars; the edge of one bar being hinged to the opposed edge of the cover, and one bar being movable bodily toward and from the other, and one bar being provided with pins the same distance apart as said impalement pins and the other bar being provided with apertures to receive the bar pins.

4. A binder comprising' a back having a back wall and side and end walls and also-- having a lip at the inner'side of one'side wall and bearings on the inner side of the other side wall, a channeled strip having trunnions at its ends journaled in said bear- 15 ings and also-having an inipalement pin,

and a retaining device constructed and ar-.

ranged to be compressed and to be confined in the back behind the said lip thereof and having an aperture to receive the pin of the" channeled strip and also having a pin the end of which is arranged to rest in" the channel of said strip.

' In testimony whereof I have hereunto set.

A. C. WoR'rnmG'ron, I W. W. HEALEY. 

